NIDCR launches unique initiative on oral biofilm
...acteria present, including many which could not be grown in the laboratory. The result: over 1.6 billion base pairs, or units, of DNA and nearly 70,000 new genes. Gill noted that the oral metagenomics project marks the first time that this approach has been undertaken for biomedical research on humans....NC State gets $1.59M grant to map genome of parasitic worm
..., tomatoes and soybeans, just to name a few widely grown crops. Finding a way to manage or control the root-knot nematode population hasn't always been very successful to date, Opperman says, mostly due to the high costs of chemical nematicides "The root-knot nematode's tolerance to pesticides is quite ro...Cloned gene from sea animal may prove key in cancer drug development
... of producing the compounds.The bacteria cannot be grown in laboratories. And collecting vast numbers of the animals at sea would be environmentally destructive. One way of solving this dilemma is to clone the genes involved in natural bryostatin development. In the Chemistry and Biology paper, the researc...Key to understanding how blood and blood vessel cells develop discovered
...in cultures of differentiated embryonic stem cells grown in petri dishes. "Now that we have proven that the same steps are involved in the production of blood and blood vessels in the embryo as has been observed in the petri dish, we have validated the usefulness of the embryonic stem cells as a model," s...Chemical process developed to use cotton gin residue
...ife Sciences. About 100,000 acres of cotton are grown in the Virginia counties of Southampton, Isle of Wight, Greensville, Sussex, and the City of Suffolk. After the cotton is ginned, the residue left at the processing plant contains the chemical ingredients for products that are commercially valuable. ...Shedding feathers early may enhance sex appeal, new songbird study shows
...al Research Center). "Their replacement feathers, grown en route, are less colourful than those of birds t...By measuring stable hydrogen isotopes in the newly grown feathers when birds returned the following spring to breed at the Queen's University Biology Station...Flame retardant exposure linked to house dust
...ee makers. In recent years, however, concerns have grown with evidence that PBDE concentrations are increasing rapidly both in the environment and in human tissues and body fluids. Toxicological data on PBDEs is still limited, but the compounds have been implicated in developmental, reproductive, neurotoxi...NJIT astrophysicist who revived earthshine named fellow of American Physical Society
...ogy (Cal Tech). Under Goode's leadership, BBSO has grown in size and stature. The staff has mushroomed from 4 to 40 people and the annual budget, supported solely by competitive federal grants, has increased tenfold, from less than $500,000 then, to more than $5 million now. Over the next decade, Goo...Current human embryonic stem cell lines contaminated UCSD/Salk team finds
...Gc is incorporated by the stem cells when they are grown or derived from laboratory cultures that contain a...em cells remained contaminated by Neu5Gc even when grown in special culture conditions with commercially available serum replacements, apparently because the...Yellowstone microbes fueled by hydrogen, according to U. of Colorado study
...l techniques of microbiology that utilize cultures grown in the lab, the CU-Boulder team used methodology developed by Pace to genetically analyze the composition of the microbial community as it appeared in the field. "We didn't look at what grows in a culture dish, we looked at the RNA of samples direct...'Moss in space' project shows how some plants grow without gravity
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Experiments on moss grown aboard two space shuttle Columbia missions showed ...nd his colleagues noted this even in moss cultures grown aboard the second of the two space shuttle missions, STS-107, which had disintegrated upon its reent...Brown scientists uncover inner workings of rare eye cells
...g melanopsin into cells taken from the kidneys and grown in culture. These cells, which are not normally sensitive to light, were transformed into photoreceptors when flooded with melanopsin. In fact, the kidney cells responded to light almost exactly the way ipRGCs do, confirming that melanopsin is the ph...Protein stops growth of brain tumor, OHSU study shows
...s used herstatin to treat human glioblastoma cells grown in culture and implanted in rats. "We saw a few tumor cells at the injection site, but they never proliferated," Clinton said. Herstatin was not effective on a mutant form of the EGF receptor, called EGF receptor delta. The mutant receptor causes eve...Indiana University scientists' research success puts Indiana in new stem cell business
...te much like embryonic stem cells, and they can be grown in large quantities in the laboratory, said Dr. Yoder. The research appeared in the November issue of Blood, the journal of the American Society of Hematology. The Emerging Technology Center, 351 W. Tenth St., is a life sciences business incubator ow...Bioartificial kidney under study at MCG
...omically unsuitable for transplant. The cells are grown into the walls of thousands of hollow fibers contained in a cartridge similar to those used for traditional dialysis. With dialysis, a patient's blood runs through the fibers and a solution with the normal composition of electrolytes runs on the outs...A bug's life: aging and death in E. coli
...follow all the cell divisions in 94 colonies, each grown from a single fluorescently labeled E. coli cell. In all, the researchers built up a lineage for 35,049 cells in terms of which pole--old or new--each cell had inherited at each division during its history. They found that the cells inheriting old ...Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show
... no other mustard-related plant species were being grown in the vicinity," said Banuelos. He noted that every morning trained workers swept through the fields to literally nip any flowers in the bud, and that netting and buried chicken wire were used to keep wildlife away from the plants. "One of the cha...Gene used in brain development can cause childhood brain cancers
...n tumor cells. More than half of medulloblastomas grown in the laboratory responded to ATRA treatment. "The response that ATRA imposes upon these medulloblastoma brain tumor cell lines suggests that this type of tumor may respond favorably to ATRA-based therapy," said Hai Yan, M.D., Ph.D., the principle i...Women's health, tissue regeneration is focus of Illinois & Carle Hospital initiative
...biomolecular engineering. Eventually, the tissues grown by members of Schook's research team could be used by Carle physicians to promote more efficient cell growth in surgically repaired areas and reduce the need for yet more surgery that sometimes becomes necessary when a patient is older. "We want to d......ne, we could use test kits with insulin antibodies grown in vivo--literally from cells injected into the ab...issouri, Even successfully incorporated antibodies grown in the medium into a test kit for human insulin. A report on the new methodology will be published ...